Part 4 Shoot the Giant in the face

The 4 of you are still sitting in the booth talking with Briseis, she just told you that Apollo talked Zeus in to letting his Mother Lato free so there should be no problem killing the titan bug if it is still asleep...

Alessandro: "Do you have any idea how deep it's burrowed or how wide its hive might be?

"The Nymph shakes her head "It should be about 3 miles down; but with its spawn burrowing in the earth I don't know"

Alessandro: "Friggin weak, I was afraid of that. Looks like we'll have several square miles of giant, bug infested, tunnels to explore. I may need another cerveza."

"Well there is a way to make things easier for you; you see my lord did not want the other towns around here to get inffected if it got out so there are crystals that make the same humming sound as the sleep spell; but he put them in points around the town like the Old fort, the Lake or the Indain stone houses near by. Alessandro: "Cool, who wants to go souvenir shopping? We might be able to get them pretty quick if we split up."

Dana nods. "I agree. We'd cover far more ground apart than together." She looks to Briseis. "Would you travel with me? While the others collect the crystals, I would like to scout potential ambush sites we could lure the bugs that have escaped to, perhaps even rid them all without descending into caverns that they hold the home court advantage."

The Nymph shrugs saying "Well I'm not much of a fighter... more of a lover. But I could show you around"... Then as she talks Jack Kicks in the door dragging a sack full of armor She looks up and sighs " Is he with you or...?"Jack: hearing the comment looks over at the nymph "nope i just save the world as part of my court ordered community service -_-"

Satoshi: " he is with us" with a slight sigh

"I am Briseis Priestess of Apollo." she says to Jack

Jack: what do you mean? fire support, demolitions expert....or heavy drinker??
 * Dana glances around to watch Jack's rather unsubtle entrance with a smirk flitting over her lips before it disappears. "He's our ... ah ...well... every group needs that guy, you realize." She turns back to the nymph.

Alessandro: "So who wants to go where? I'm cool with wherever but the stone houses seem kind of neat...I guess.

Briseis sort of looks shocked and says " You might want to save that place for last... I hear it has giants and ghost of Natives "

Dana shrugs, leaning back in her chair. "Like I said, I prefer scouting the tunnels and surface areas for places we could use to our advatange. I'm not much for shopping."

"Well They would not really be buying things just trying to find the dwarf sized crystals... one of them should be enough to protect your band from the worse of the swarm" say the nymphAlessandro: "We could hit the old fort, pay old Gym a visit and remind him why it's not nice to lie to visitors just because he didn't get a free fix."Jack: "well i already was at the fort and reminded him...in the form of a few crass insults..that and i watered down his booze,so if no one else wants to go ill go talk to the giants at the stone houses" jack says after brightening up awhile when the word giants is said"We do that, we risk losing time." Dana looks to the nymph. "All the crystals in the world will not stop us from being killed if we do not plan our battlefield ahead of time. We may be the children of the gods, but we -are- mortal."the Nymph sighs " I know I have one remember... I'm just trying to say evern though I might not feel safe with all of you; It would be better to try and stay in larger groups three would be ok I guess"Alessandro: "So let's split it, half of us check out the staging area, I'lll even lend ya a couple extra hands, and the rest of us will go rustle up a big ass diamond or ruby or whatever."Satoshi: " ok that sounds fine" Jack: "well if we need a big ass gemstone i know JUUUUST where to find one"Satoshi: "Thats good"The Nymph nods and sends the boys off to the stone houses; when you get there you see that they are normal Pueblo's as you pull up you see a little court yard... with a large glowing crytsal being protected by a few tired looking ghosts... of Aztec Arrow knights Jack: hmmm arows..." jack stays quiet for a few minutes while thinking "okay guys get in the back of my truck... if they start shooting you probbably won't get hit.."Satoshi: "that looks like it is what we are looking for."Alessandro: "Well that was substantially easier to find than I figured." I pull out the remaining three hearts from my bag and spend a legend to call forth my Shorn Ones, upon arrival they accept their hearts and place them back in the wound in their chests. Three gruff looking warriors in modern day bullet proof vests and cargo pants with rifles, pistols and machetes appear, all are shaved save for a single braid falling to one side of their face. With the spending a power the Arrow knights look in Alessandro directions one calls out Friend or foe in his own ancient tongue Alessandro: Addressing my own followers "Lay down arms, present no threat to these spirits" I spread my hands in an open gesture of non aggression and taking a guess repeat the first word asked of me hoping it meant friend.The lead night nods and speaks "Do not worry young one I speak the tongue of new land(assuming he means english) Jack: eyes the warrior spirits suspiciously " well that's damned convinient"Alessandro: "Then you understood me before, let a friend take over this duty for you, at least for a while. There is no shame in rest." [In English]The leader cocks and eyebrow and say "Now is not the time so the Flint men and there snakish master will come back and try to break this like the others.Alessandro: "Flint men, you don't mean the elementals from the mining operation do you? Or is there another menacing force in this town?" He asked exasperatedly."They are giants coated in a suits a flint rocks, they work for the shaman that brought the titan to this land... the Shaman him self has turned him self in to what I would call a ZIPACNA but the locals call a Unktehi " Alessandro: "We can handle them, don't worry your wispy heads about it. Any idea where they live?"The Leader starts to speak when the ground shakes ... up from the ground 3 of the flint men spring from the ground and so does a Cat-snake thing the size of a large bull springs from a near by well... and then turns in to a giant Native man that dwarfs the men of flint. The leader says " If you are brave you take the flint men are arrows have magic that keeps their leader at bay.Jack smirks wildly at the flintmen and takes his hammer out of it's ring sheath then says "time to start a pile-in up he bodies..." in a half kidding half serious toneAlessandro: Pulling out his knife "Shit puta, I'm brave enough to bang your mom!"Jack laughs " damn all i didn't know your were into chafing that much..." jack turns to the flintman on the far left "HEY! UGLEH! You and me! to the death!" Alessandro's lead follower, recognizable by his customized maquahuitl stock rifle, is coordinating an attack against the leader. The leader shouts out to the to the two other minions who get ready One of the Giants Charges up to Jack and tries to bear hug him but Jack slips out of his reach. A second on tries to back hand Satoshi but Satoshi trips over something and the giant miss completely it looks like you've tripped over some sort of weapon, and the last one goes to Punch one of Al's warriors the punch lands but it doesn't get past the armor of the warrior. Satoshi: picks up the unkown weapon and slashes back with it, With the Lances swing a burst of frost hits the giant taking a large chunk with it... it seems water and cold are these things weakness.Her 'mother's' gifts of the sandals of Atalanta had come in handy during this little side-trip and as Dana easily runs towards where the Nymph had pointed out the location she had sent the boys to on a map, and with innate directional sense, the huntress crested the hill to watch one of Alessandro's men take a nasty punch. "I can't take them anywhere." She mutters, calling her bow to her hand and focusing on one of the giant moving rocks, her keen sight pinpointing the very (very) few weaknesses a creature armored with flint could have. She hoped the force of the shot would be more than enough to chip off the easily-breakable rock. The Arrow seem to to be all that effective it really only chips his armor. Dana curses and nocks another set of arrows.Jack: "hey bone head!" jack yells at the giant and attempts to drive the spiked end of his hammer into it's skull, The tick flint takes most of the damage but it does hurt him alittle. Alessandro focuses on rejecting as many incoming attacks as possible while awaiting his partners to sync up with one another while his two followers take aim at the lead giant. They seem to ignore all outside distraction and focus on their singular target, knowing that to fail in their appointed task is to invite the wrath of their master and a swift trip back to Tlalocan. The Snakething and the archers seem to be at a stalemateAlessandro's followers unleash a wave of divine lead against the Cat/Snake turned giant man an instant after Alessandro brings his foot down to send dirt and plant matter flying into the air as a crack erupts in the ground and shoots toward the creature like ice breaking over a pond. Out of all the Attacks, Only one hits but to the Cat/snake its like a buzzing flyThe One giant tries to hug the hammer using irishman; The next tires to smash Satoshi and the last attacks Al. but none of them hit.Observing the battle for the few seconds is enough to deduce that arrows will be completely ineffective. Still, she notes that the giants swing madly, and even Jack is able to roll away from the crushing blows. The bow disappears with a thought as Dana digs in her heels and takes off towards the first giant, swinging underneath the massive fists above her. With a taunting yell, she reaches up to hook her arm on it's fist like it was a bar and vaults onto it's head to then leap over to the second giant, daring the first to try and smash her before she can.Jack seeing al's tactic and copies by when he swings his hammer at the giant once more by draging it on the ground to hide his hammer's blow and obscure the gian'ts vision; Jack's hammer Slams in to the unwitted Giant and it stagers back very hurt. Satoshi jumps spining the spear andstabing down ward onto the giant that had last atemted to hit him "this weeapon seems to hurt you more right"; With a might strike Satoshi fells the damageAlessandro jumps, spinning, into the air trying to land on the back of the lead giant and activates Do Not Want. I start drooling down his neck and face and trying to lick him. While the beast is distracted the Shorn Ones take their opportunity to unleash one more volley into the beast. even with being licked the damage doesn't hurtThe one Giant takes a swing at Dana but she jumps out of the way and it fist smashes in to the Giant jack has hurt... Kocking it flat; it does not seem to be getting Up...After being Licked and seeing two of his followers down the remaining giants flee... With the that the Ghosts the power spent vanish leaving a small pile of arrows on the floor. The Crystal looks fine.Alessandro: Spitting a large ammount of saliva onto the ground "Bastards weren't so tough, one wet willie and boom they're outa here." "Let's grab that crystal and bounce."Jack walks to the head of the downed giant and attempts to crush it's head with a hammerSatoshi: " i think thats a good idea but what happened to the spirits?"Alessandro: "I'm assuming they know the good guys when they meet em. Let's just take it as a sign they're trusting us with this thing, Dana grab those spooky ghost arrows and let's go!"Dana, having landed on the giant felled by Jack and the second giant jumps out of the way when he cracks his hammer down. "Hey! Watch it! Or I'll use you as my next targetting practice!" She scowls, landing by the arrows and scooping them up in one motion before tucking them into her bag.Alessandro orders his followers to carry the crystal to the truck, if it's not too heavy. At this point the other two sent with Dana the Nymph and Regan earlier crest the hill to rejoin the group after running from wherever they were previously. Dana seems to have been a mite bit faster than normal soldiers. The Nymph come huffing and puffing saying " I'm not built for all this shit... have any of your tried to run in four inch heels?" [she can id the relics and trophies if you want] Dana doesn't hide her smirk very well as she replies that, yes, she's run in four-inch heels before quite well.Satoshi: sits down and uses the wakeful spirit on the spearAlessandro: "Ok we have the crystal, can we please get on with the bug stomping?""You might want to wait until tomarrow morning the Hum is stronger during the day" the nymph say as as Satoshi awakens the lance a face looking like an old war cheif floats over the weapon saying that is name is Winter's Spite or something like that and it will allow its user to use cold as a weapon